Jonathan Beller

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Jonathan L. Beller is an American professor and media scholar .

Life

Beller graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English in 1985 and then continued to study at the University of Texas in Austin , Texas from 1986 to 1987 as part of a graduate program. He graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) from Columbia University in 1988. He received his doctorate in 1994 from Duke University in Durham (North Carolina) in literature . The topic of his dissertation was: The Cinematic Mode of Production . In 1998/1999 he went to Manila in the Philippines , where he taught cultural studies and film theory at the University of the Philippines and the Jesuit University Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City , supported by a Fulbright scholarship for teaching and research.

Beller has taught as visiting professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and San Francisco State University . He has been teaching at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, since 2004, where he has been the program director in the graduate program for media studies since 2012.

honors and awards

  • 1986–1987: Scholarship from the University of Texas , Austin
  • 1987–1988: fellowship from Columbia University, New York City
  • 1989–1993: Duke University Fellowship
  • 1998–1999: Fulbright scholarship for teaching and studying
  • 2005–2009: both a research grant and a travel grant from the Mellon Foundation for one year

Publications

  • Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visualty, Nationalist Struggle, and the World-Media-System . Ateneo de Manila University Press, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines 2006, ISBN 971-55049-5-9 .
  • The Cinematic Mode of Production: Toward A Political Economy of the Society of the Spectacle . University Press of New England, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA 2006, ISBN 1-58465-583-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simon Rothöhler: After the spectacle. About Jonathan Beller and his theoretical work. In: CARGO Film / Media / Culture. 2/2009, pp. 75-79.
personal data
SURNAME Beller, Jonathan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beller, Jonathan L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American media scholar and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century